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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Tel Aviv based CEO’ operating in the Semiconductor space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kobi Marenko
Co-Founder, CEO of Arbe
Kobi Marenko is an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in mobile & media.In the last 15 years he co- founded and managed leading companies in media and mobile. He was a military correspondent and editor in Channel 2 news, the leading TV news company in Israel. After he left the media he was partner and COO of m-Wise, a leading interactive SMS company (mwis.ob). In 2004, Kobi founded Logia Mobile, a world leader in mobile carriers content services. In 2012 Logia Mobile was sold to Mandalay Digital (MNDL.ob). In 2011 Kobi co-founded Taptica, with the vision of bringing optimization and performance to the mobile world. Today Kobi is the president of the company, leading development and activity in the USA.
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About Arbe, eSnips, Infarm: Arbe Robotics offers Real Time 4D Imaging Radar for autonomous driving.
Shai Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO of proteanTecs
Shai Cohen is the CEO and CO-Founder at proteanTecs. He is also a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox’s chief operating officer since May 2011 and has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2015. Previously, Shai was Mellanox’s vice president of operations and engineering from June 1999 to May 2011. From September 1989 to May 1999, Mr. Cohen worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a circuit design manager at the cache controllers group. Shai holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Mellanox Technologies, proteanTecs: ProteanTecs is a computer software company that develops a cloud-based platform to monitor chipset health and performance.
Moshe Shahaf
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tehuti Networks
Moshe Shahaf is a scholar with twenty years of experience in the management of multinational engineering teams and more than dozen years of experience in international high technology venture business. Shahaf has a broad technical knowledge with a strong operational background. He acquired expertise in semiconductor technologies and applications in the fields of digital signal processing, network technology and security. Shahaf has held many highly regarded positions throughout his career. He was a Co-Founder of Prescient Venture Capital (AU), he was a Managing Partner of Vertex Venture Capital, an Israeli subsidiary of Vertex Venture Holding (SG). He was a Partner at Formula Ventures and an investment consultant to venture funds and investment banks in Israel. Shahaf served as Vice President R&D and Chief Technology Officer of the DSP Group, RAD Network Device, and Wave Systems. Shahaf spent the formative years of his career at National Semiconductor where he held various management and development positions in Silicon Valley, Europe and Israel. Moshe Shahaf served as a Major (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces R&D unit specialized in the field of RF communication. Shahaf earned a B.Sc., in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, M.B.A, from Tel Aviv University, Masters in Law from Bar-Ilan University, and Masters in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.
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About DSP Group, Formula Ventures, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, National Semiconductor, RAD Data Communications, Tehuti Networks, Wave Systems: Tehuti Networks is a privately held fabless semiconductor company developing a TCP/IP acceleration device.
Eyal Waldman
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Mellanox Technologies
Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox’s president and chief executive officer since March 1999. From March 1993 to February 1999, Eyal served Vice President of Engineering and was a co-founder of Galileo Technology Ltd., or Galileo, a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in January 2001. From August 1989 to March 1993, Eyal held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Eyal holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Mellanox Technologies: Mellanox Technologies provides end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance.
Orr Danon
CEO of Hailo
Orr is CEO and Co-Founder of Hailo, bringing with him a decade of software and engineering experience from the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence unit. In his role, he coordinated many of the unit’s largest and most complex interdisciplinary projects, ultimately earning the Israel Defense Award granted by Israel’s president, and the Creative Thinking Award, bestowed by the head of Israel’s military intelligence. Orr holds an M.Sc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc in Physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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About Hailo: Hailo is a developer of a specialized deep learning processor that delivers the performance of a data center-class computer to edge devices.
